This brave young woman is a citizen journalist who has been covering her trials and Tribulations of surviving in the Gaza Strip, and sharing them with the world.
Since Israel doesn’t want the world to continue watching what it is doing in Gaza, it seems killing the remaining Palestinian Press isn’t enough anymore. Israel expelled Al Jazeera, the media platform on through which Bisan reached the world, as well as the Associated Press. I hope very much hope Bisan and everyone else in Gaza can survive in the dark.
On Friday, the Government of Canada finally made an announcement about restoring its pledged UNWRA funding:
News release
March 8, 2024 – Mississauga, Ontario – Global Affairs Canada
Canada is deeply concerned by the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Gaza that is worsening by the hour. Help must reach civilians as quickly as possible. Canada is working to overcome challenges related to…
On Friday, the Government of Canada finally made an announcement about restoring its pledged UNWRA funding:
News release
March 8, 2024 – Mississauga, Ontario – Global Affairs Canada
Canada is deeply concerned by the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Gaza that is worsening by the hour. Help must reach civilians as quickly as possible. Canada is working to overcome challenges related to humanitarian access and the delivery of life-saving relief so that more assistance can reach those in need.
Canada was the first G7 country to provide support to Gaza after October 7, 2023, and is one of the world’s largest donors of assistance to address the current crisis. Today, the Honourable Ahmed Hussen, Minister of International Development, announced that Canada will be lifting its temporary pause on funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). UNRWA plays a vital role in Gaza, providing over 2 million people with humanitarian relief, in addition to its crucial operations supporting 4 million people elsewhere in the region. Other organizations also rely on UNRWA’s experience and infrastructure to deliver humanitarian assistance in Gaza.
Following allegations that some UNRWA staff were involved in Hamas’s heinous terrorist attacks against Israel on October 7, 2023, the UN has put in place several significant processes to address the allegations and reinforce its zero tolerance for terror within the UN, including UNRWA. Canada has reviewed the interim report of the UN Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) on this matter and looks forward to the final report. Canada commends the independent review of UNRWA currently underway, led by Catherine Colonna, and anticipates reviewing the report assessing UNRWA’s neutrality mechanisms. While these investigative processes continue, UNRWA has taken immediate measures to strengthen oversight, accountability and transparency.
Canada is committed to ensuring full accountability, decisive action and the implementation of necessary reforms within UNRWA. Canada will work with fellow donors, the UN and UNRWA to ensure that the recommendations stemming from both the OIOS investigation and the independent review are fully implemented. Canada expects UNRWA to meet its obligations and uphold the UN’s value of neutrality: this is an essential component of UNRWA’s mandate.
Women and children are bearing the heaviest toll as a result of the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza. Over 1.7 million Gazans are displaced, with the majority living in crowded and unsanitary conditions in Rafah. Most of the population is severely food insecure and there is a growing risk of widespread famine. Access to life-saving medical services is heavily limited.
Every amount of assistance is critical, which is why Canada is pursuing all avenues to deliver assistance into Gaza. One way Canada is doing this is by supporting Jordan and the World Food Programme (WFP) to conduct airdrops in Gaza delivering essential items that Palestinian civilians desperately need.
Jordan has been playing a key role in delivering desperately needed supplies by both land and air to Gaza. To bolster these efforts, Canada is providing $100,000 in funding to the Jordan Hashemite Charity Organisation for the purchase of supplies such as food, blankets and winter clothing, which will be delivered to Gazans in need, including through Jordanian airdrops. Additionally, Canada has allocated substantial funding to the WFP, part of which will be used for airdrops.
The Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) will be providing approximately 300 cargo parachutes from the Canadian Army Advanced Warfare Centre in Trenton to the Royal Jordanian Air Force to assist them in conducting the airdrops of critical supplies into Gaza.
Airdrops are absolutely not a substitute for deliveries via land and sea routes. Canada continues to call for more entry points, expanded access, protection of humanitarian workers, and a humanitarian ceasefire.
Canada continues to call on all parties to respect their international humanitarian law obligations. This includes immediately releasing all hostages, ceasing to employ human shields, respecting and protecting medical and humanitarian personnel, and taking all feasible precautions to protect civilians in the conduct of hostilities. Furthermore, the parties must allow and facilitate rapid and unimpeded passage of humanitarian relief for civilians in need.
Canada is committed to a two-state solution, with Israelis and Palestinians living side by side in peace and security, with dignity and without fear.
Quotes
“Since the horrific terrorist attack by Hamas on October 7, Canada has centred its decisions on the protection of civilians. Both Israelis and Palestinians have the fundamental human right to live in peace, dignity and security, without fear. As a government, we have a responsibility to ensure that Canadians have confidence in the organizations we support, which is why we have taken prudent measures to allow for a necessary investigation to take place. In recognition of the robust investigative processes underway, UNRWA’s efforts to address serious allegations made against some of its staff, including the implementation of internal measures to improve oversight and accountability, as well as the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Gaza, Canada is resuming its funding to UNRWA so more can be done to respond to the urgent needs of Palestinian civilians. Canada will continue to take the allegations against some of UNRWA’s staff extremely seriously and we will remain closely engaged with UNRWA and the UN to pursue accountability and reforms.”
– Ahmed Hussen, Minister of International Development
“This donation of parachutes from the Canadian Armed Forces will help to replenish the Royal Jordanian Air Force’s supplies for humanitarian airdrops, supporting the delivery of life-saving assistance to the Palestinian people. Through this donation and our significant financial contributions to trusted partners, Canada will continue to provide the Palestinian people with access to critical humanitarian relief.”
– Bill Blair, Minister of National Defence
“Canada is resuming its funding to UNRWA, so more can be done to respond to the urgent needs of Palestinian civilians. We shall continue to be closely engaged with UNRWA on investigations, reviews and audits currently underway. All of these will require the full cooperation of the Government of Israel, as well as the determination of UNRWA itself to improve its own security systems. The United Nations Secretary-General has given member states and donors his personal assurance that these issues have his full attention.”
– Bob Rae, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations in New York
Quick facts
No regularly scheduled payment that was intended to go to UNRWA was missed during the temporary pause. By providing certainty that Canada’s planned contribution will proceed, this will help prevent the imminent collapse of this essential organization.
The CAF is making available approximately 300 cargo parachutes for the purpose of dropping cargo.
I’ve heard many people say Canada has no International political influence, but that just isn’t so. We still have the reputation of being nice, deserved or not. When Canada went along with Israel’s push to defund UNWRA in hopes of distracting the world from the compelling Genocide case before the International Court of Justice, other countries did too.
That’s why the second part of the “ask” in Petition e-4802 was:
2. Advocating other countries do the same to prevent the collapse of UNRWA when Gaza’s lifeline is needed most.
Despite the fact Canada is restoring UNWRA funding (for today, anyway) Petition E-482 will remain Open for Signature until 2:02 p.m. on March 13, 2024. (EDT)
Because of this, I ask petition supporters to continue signing and sharing for the few days that remain.
This is so important because the more signatures e-Petition 4802 receives, the more seriously the Government of Canada will take it, so please keep signing and sharing!
Thank you for your support!
Many thanks to everyone who helps keep this terrible issue in the public eye.
Petition to the House of Commons in Parliament assembled
Whereas:
• In 1949 the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) was established to carry out direct relief and works programs for Palestinian refugees.
• UNRWA is the primary provider of humanitarian aid: food, social services, healthcare, schools, refugee camps, and microfinance, sustaining the lives of millions of civilians, more than half of them children, in the Palestinian territory of Gaza, blockaded by Israel since 2007.
• South Africa submitted an Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v. Israel) to the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
• After considering both Application and oral arguments, the Court concluded genocide was “plausible.”
• In its January 26th Order, the ICJ cited UNRWA statements documenting dire conditions in the Gaza Strip, before introducing its fourth Provisional Measure:
• “The State of Israel shall take immediate and effective measures to enable the provision of urgently needed basic services and humanitarian assistance to address the adverse conditions of life faced by Palestinians in the Gaza Strip;”
• Hours later, Israel leveled allegations against a dozen UNRWA employees, and Canada “paused” Humanitarian funding committed to UNRWA without waiting for an Investigation.
We, the undersigned, citizens and residents of Canada, call upon the Government of Canada to:
live up to our obligations under the Genocide Convention, to prevent the catastrophic humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip from “deteriorating further before the Court renders its final judgment,” by
reinstating Canada’s UNRWA funding, and
advocating other countries do the same to prevent the collapse of UNRWA when Gaza’s lifeline is needed most.
I’ve asked many people to sign petitions, but never started my own til now.
This is one of many bad things going on in the world today that could easily be stopped with political will. Unfortunately too many politicians in winner-take-all political systems like ours don’t actually represent us. Which is why we have to work so hard trying to get them to listen. And why so many people across Canada feel compelled to protest in the streets.
Genocide is the worst thing people can do to one another.
Israel has issued many orders to the people of Gaza since October 7, 2023. As a result, its attacks have laid most of Gaza to waste. The vast majority of the surviving population has been herded into Rafah, the last remains of a city in the Gaza strip. Today, more than a million people huddle in refugee tents that have no doubt been provided by UNRWA.
The genocide in Gaza is not just plausible, it is ongoing. And because it could be completed at any time, nothing is more important today.
That’s why it is so important to get 500 signatures as quickly as possible.
I am terrified that the end is imminent.
Which is why I am asking you to please sign this petition, and share it with everyone you know.
Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME) has provided Canadians with an easy way to support the South African invocation of the UN’s Genocide Convention at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). If the ICJ finds merit in the South African case against Israel, the Court could impose “provisional measures,” including an end to Israel’s military operations against Gaza. We can let our government know where we Canadians stand by telling them in a letter.
Or, if you’re like me, there is more you might want to say. My version of the letter is a quite a bit longer than CJPME’s because I am really upset and want the Canadian Government that doesn’t represent me to know that. If you’re interested in reading my version for yourself, here it is:
Mr Netanyahu and his government have claimed the right of self defense against Hamas, but retaliation is not self defense. Raining death and destruction against the Palestinian people is an ongoing act of collective punishment.
Since October 7, the IDF has not only killed thousands of innocent Palestinians, it has actively killed at least three of the Israeli hostages, and likely more as a direct result of months of indiscriminate bombing of Gaza.
During the October crisis, Canada imposed the War Measures Act, it didn’t bomb Montreal into oblivion in retaliation against the FLQ.
Even if you agree with Mr Netanyahu’s opinion that Palestinians are only “human animals,” this policy has not and will not eliminate Hamas, or even bring the perpetrators to justice.
South Africa has taken the principled step of invoking the UN’s Genocide Convention, which could mean finally putting an end to Israel’s brutal war on Palestinians if the court decides to impose provisional measures. I expect Canada to support South Africa’s effort to hold perpetrators of genocide accountable before the World Court!
How can you have listened to the South African case at the ICJ and chosen to oppose it?
South Africa’s case identifies many statements of Israeli leaders expressing genocidal intent. These dehumanizing and violent beliefs are driving Israel’s actions in Gaza, including the killing of well over 20,000 Palestinians and inflicting conditions of life intended to destroy the population.
A few years ago Mr Trudeau apologized for Canada’s craven act of turning away the MS St Louis, which consigned hundreds of innocents to death. The Prime Minister said the Liberal government of the day “was unmoved by the plight of these refugees.” How can the Liberal Government of today stand unmoved by the plight of the captive population in Gaza, particularly when more than half are children? Apologies are meaningless if we knowingly repeat the mistake.
Can you summon no empathy for the children? Close your eyes and imagine that it was your child who suffered the loss of home and family, been dehydrated, malnourished, starved, exposed to the elements,buried under rubble, maimed, infected, forced to endure amputations without anesthetic, and even consigned to death in this unprecedented humanitarian disaster?
Canada’s failure to support South Africa’s case at the ICJ goes beyond demonstration of a callous disregard for human rights, it will make the government of Canada complicit in what may very well be the death of millions.
As a signatory to the Genocide Convention, Canada has an indisputable responsibility to prevent and punish genocide wherever it occurs. I demand that Canada fully support South Africa’s case and help bring an end to the violence and death in Gaza.
If Canada wants to be seen as a “Rule of Law” country, it’s time our government began to live up to the International Treaties it has signed, and stand for International Laws, even when our friends break them.
If “never again” doesn’t apply to Palestinians, it doesn’t apply to anyone.
One of Israel’s contentions is that all the citizens of Gaza are responsible for the actions of Hamas. But they aren’t. Hamas may seem to be the Government of Gaza, but it isn’t really. The last election was in 2006. I can tell you from personal experience that it is ridiculous to blame me for what the Canadian (or Ontario) Government(s) do, because despite voting in every election, my vote has never secured me representation in Parliament or the Legisative Assembly of Ontario.
Neither Palestine or Gaza have been allowed self determination or to have a free state. The Palestinian Territories have pretty much been occupied one way or another for 75 years. Even though Israel supposedly withdrew from Gaza, it has blockaded the Palestinian Territory for years, deciding what can go in or out. Palesrtinians getting too close to the exits get shot. Blaming Palestinians for Hamas is adding insult to injury.
I haven’t watched all of the Israeli response at the ICJ, but from what I have seen, it seems the defence revolves around the ridiculous claim that Hamas is committing genocide against Israel. Online comments tend to run to Ad Hominems against South Africa for daring to get involved. When you have to resort to Ad Hominems, you aren’t winning the argument.
In the 3 months of Israel’s retaliation for October 7th, 2023, the occupying power has been targeting civilian infrastructure, destroying water and waste treatment facilities, along with more than three quarters of the housing stock, schools,mosques and churches.
They have also been targeting civilians, as well as killing record numbers of the press, humanitarian aid and health care workers, displacing millions of civilians, rendering most hospitals inactive, and leaving the few still struggling to provide care in the midst of this humanitarian crisis without lifesaving medical supplies. Without anesthesia, many of the wounded, including perhaps a thousand children, have endured amputation without any kind of pain relief at all. More than 1% of the population has been killed, untold numbers are buried under the rubble, with many more left injured. Lack of food, fuel and shelter, infection and illness will kill many more even if the bombs stop falling. This is a genocide unfolding in real time before our eyes.
Please contact your Member of Parliament as many times as it takes.
The list of war crimes Israel perpetrates against Palestine just keeps growing.
The 17 year siege of Gaza is the longest siege in history. The Gaza Strip is home to some 2 million people (or it was before this started). The Strip is surrounded by razor wire and “no go” buffer zones where any Palestinian getting too close would be summarily shot. Nor could Gazans leave this open air prison by the heavily patrolled sea, where the Israeli naval service would use any means possible to prevent this.
There were two exits available, one totally controlled by the Israeli military, the other by the Jordan military. The exit to Jordan has been shut down. About one-third of the 1.4 million registered Palestine refugees live in the 58 UNRWA-recognised refugee camps in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Egypt does not want more.
Duriing those 17 years, Israel has strictly controlled everything that goes into and comes out of Gaza. Electricity, water, fuel, medical help. They carefully keep Gazans on a subsistence diet. Humanitarian aid coming by sea (including the Canadian Boat To Gaza) have been stopped and sent back. Covid Vaccinations were given to Israelis, not Gazans.
Gazans have no human rights under Israeli military rule. Half of the Palestinian residents Gaza are children.
This 16 year siege has been marked by various uprisings from among the captives. But apparently this siege has not been brutal enough.
So now, in response to the recent Hamas terrorist attacks on Israelis, Israel is “imposing a complete siege on Gaza.”
After mercilessly bombarding the civilians of the Gaza strip with bombs, Israel is ordering the captive Palestinians to leave…except when they do, they are attacked and often killed.
“There will be no electricity, no food, no water, no fuel, everything will be closed.” When you lock up millions of people in a densely occupied open air prison without food and water, there is only one possible outcome.
This isn’t a war, its an occupation. Its shooting fish in a barrel.
But Israel thinks these flagrant human rights violations are justified, because their leadership don’t see Palestinians as human beings, but as human animals.
Citizen Journalism: Sharing What Happened In Texas
Nothing better illustrates the truth of Jay Rosen‘s pronouncement that “the watchdog press is dead” than the events on the evening of Tuesday, June 25th, in the Texas State Senate. The Republican majority planned to push though the anti-abortion Senate Bill No. 5. While CNN considered baked goods, the reportage from Texas was accomplished by citizen journalists, and global distribution was…
I’ve written extensively about Mexico’s new copyright law, which was copypasted straight out of the US’s lawbooks without debate or consultation and is a catastrophic blow to human rights.
The law does senseless violence to the free expression rights of Mexican people, enabling both automated and deliberate censorship, as well as making it trivial to dox anyone by claiming copyright violations:
And its DRM rules are a nightmare for cybersecurity, fencing off devices that Mexicans entrust with their data and personal safety from independent security audits:
Today, I published two more articles analyzing the threats the new law poses to human rights in Mexico. The first is “Disability, Education, Repair and Health: How Mexico’s Copyright Law Hurts Self-Determination in the Internet Age.”
It explains how Mexico’s new law will prevent people with disabilities from adapting their technology without permission from a distant manufacturer who may not care to have their products altered:
And how it undermines the Right to Repair, by allowing foreign firms to monopolize repairs and unilaterally decide when a product is “beyond repair” and must be replaced, which has major implications for agriculture and public health:
And finally, how the rules on takedown, filters and DRM interfere with education, allowing for the arbitrary removal of curricular materials from the net and prohibiting educators from bypassing digital locks to integrate works into their teaching.
Nominally, the new Mexican law protects these activities, but as I explain, these protections are a fiction - in 22 years, no one in the USA has been able to invoke them, because of all the conditions they impose.
In a second article, “Mexico’s New Copyright Law Undermines Mexico’s National Sovereignty, Continuing Generations of Unfair ‘Fair Trade Deals’ Between the USA and Latin America,” I connect the new law to generations of economic colonialism.
Mexico’s new copyright law didn’t get rushed through Congress in a vacuum: it was passed as part of the USMCA, Donald Trump’s replacement for NAFTA.
Like so many trade deal-based laws, this new system doesn’t create an even footing between trade partners, but rather imposes a permanent, structural disadvantage on Mexican businesses and the Mexican people.
Under this law, Mexican firms will be bound by terms far more onerous than those of their Canadian and US counterparts, such as automated copyright filters, which cost millions to install and subject Mexicans’ communications to censorship from black-box algorithms.
Mexico’s new DRM laws do not contain even the minimal (wholly inadequate) safeguards in the US or Canadian systems, nor to do they have the 22 years’ worth of exemptions US films can rely on.
Meanwhile, the USA is likely to abandon this law, as we are suing the US government to overturn it:
Along with the DRM rules, Mexico has brought in a harsh and unremitting “notice and takedown” system tailor-made for abuse, which will allow companies to remove warnings about product defects and dox their critics.
Mexico’s Congress didn’t rush this law through without public debate because they knew we’d love it and didn’t want to spoil the surprise.
Like every dirty trade deal, this was heavily lobbied and passed without scrutiny because its backers knew it couldn’t withstand scrutiny.
Mexico’s National Commission for Human Rights has until TOMORROW to open an investigation into this law. If they do, they can overturn it. If you are in Mexico or are Mexican, here is a petition you can fill in:
Have you ever wanted to protest anything? The first protest I went to at Queen’s Park was to protest Ontario eliminating provincial OSAP grants for post secondary education. Later, I was a young mom when I took my toddler to the next protest when Mike Harris was cutting social services and dismantling public education.
People are allowed to protest in a democracy. I know people who protested G7 and G20 and I know people who have never protested in their lives. All sorts of people who never thought they would ever protest anything came out to protest Bill C-51. The Harper Government (and the Justin Trudeau Government that followed) chose to ignore the protests. They can do that.
What they can’t do is stop people from protesting. The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the right of every Canadian to dissent.
Maybe you’ve never protested, and maybe you never will. But today you have the right to protest. No government approval required.
This is especially important in our unrepresentative representative democracy because its the only way to even get winner-take-all government to pat attention. But the City of Toronto is considering removing that right…preventing you or anyone from protesting on city or provincial property without permission.
If the City of Toronto goes ahead with this, if they stop peaceful protests from taking place on city or provincial property, it won’t just affect Torontonians. This could prevent Citizens from anywhere in Ontario from expressing their dissent at Queens Park without breaking the law.
This is a motion, not a law, but even so, with this in place, serious breaches of civil rights will undoubtedly follow. [As they happened at Toronto’s infamous G20.]
If it goes unchallenged, other municipalities will likely follow suit. Which is why I’m sharing this call to action.
The organizers of this protest are concerned because Toronto City Council is considering a motion to shut down civil protests on Toronto or Provincial Property.
No information, no process, no visibility – just privileged access to power.
Tell Mayor Tory and all councillors this ill-conceived and ill-considered motion will not pass in our city.
URGENT – Meeting this Tuesday (Nov 28 at 9:30 am)
Toronto City Council is considering an item that came to Council on Sep-19 from Councillor James Pasternak (Ward 10 – York Centre) who is seeking a motion to shut down or prohibit access to public demonstrationson city and provincial property for so-called “hate-infested” rallies and he particularly mentions “Al Quds Day” as an example.
According to Pasternak, the Al Quds Day rally is “hate-infested” and “anti-Semitic”. Moreover, Councilor Pasternak places the Al Quds Day rally in the same category as white supremacist and neo-Nazi rallies. He also writes that “for the past several years there has been an Al Quds Day rally held in Toronto outside Queen’s Park featuring speakers making anti-Semitic and anti-Christian remarks, spreading hatred, inciting violence and supporting of terrorist organizations such as Hamas. Al Quds Day was originally created to call for the destruction of the state of Israel.” (see link below for full text.)
Not only are the claims unsubstantiated, they are untrue, misleading and grossly defamatory. If Councilor Pasternak has a problem with Al Quds Day, he should pursue it directly and not try to implicate other groups, movements and protests in sweeping action which will harm our freedom of expression and protest.
It is obvious that the larger goal of this motion is to engulf and shutdown ALL protests or actions supporting Palestine solidarity. This is typical “thin edge of of the wedge” attack which can be eventually applied to ever-broader definitions and eventually include any protest against mainstream / corporate / institutional policies and programs. This motion is a blatant assault to responsible civil society – its role and conduct
And moreover it is being done behind the backs of citizens with no notice, no attempt to contact or inform the accused or affected groups or organizations. Another abuse of fair process and reliance on privileged access to power
Now is the time to cut down this duplicitous and vile initiative before it goes any further in the council decision process. The matter is being considered at Executive Committee on Tuesday Nov-28 (9:30 am) and will be brought to City Council the following Tuesday (Dec-05 at 9:30am)
We need to let the Committee and also Council that this is NOT OK and we categoricallyreject any attempt to silence the public’s natural right to protest against power, injustice and inequality
You can read the documents related to this item from the city website. The last item is from the City Deputy Manager and the Toronto Police Service, are very encouraging to public protest. We need to ensure that city politicians do not meddle with what is a relatively open policy.
Link to the item on Executive Committee agenda for Nov28
This battle is only beginning and you can expect more calls to action between now and City Council Meeting on December 5th, 2017.
[*NOTE: IF THERE IS ANY CHANCE YOU WILL WANT TO SPEAK TO COUNCIL, YOU MAY NEED TO REGISTER IN ADVANCE —LLR]
There is no online site or facebook page as yet. We are in midst of organizing… this is only an opening action. Please write NOW; you are welcome to some of the words or thoughts above in this email or use your own.
![[White text on red field left sidebar on graphic] Dear Canadians:
Thank-you for your
support!
The Government today (March 8, 2024)announced it will restore #UNWRA funding, but doesn't seem to understand: UNWRA funding should NOT have been 'paused' even if there had been *any* verifiable proof of any UNWRA employee participation in
terrorist acts.
Canada should LEAD on Human Rights so please: KEEP SIGNING Petition e-4802
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Petition e-4802 (Foreign affairs) #UNRWA
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Member of Parliament
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9,419 signatures
Province/ Territory Signatures
Alberta 708
British Columbia 1,627
Manitoba 145
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Your civil rights are in danger.
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